WASHINGTON - Secret
documents from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency were discovered when
offices of the Church of Scientology in the United States were raided by
federal agents last year, according to reports published here yesterday.

The reports said
that apparently original Internal Revenue Service documents were found
during the raids, as well as confidential letters between members of the
U.S. Cabinet.

Also, it was discovered
the church kept an enemies list, which included files on Senator Edward
Kennedy, Jacqueline Onassis, five federal judges (including John Sirica
of Watergate fame), the U.S. Better Business Bureau and the American Medical
Association.

These details, according
to The Washington Post, have been summarized in a 525-page inventory filed
in court by the U.S. Government in an action involving the church.

The inventory has
been compiled from documents seized under subpoena when investigators
searched church offices in Washington and Los Angeles last summer.

Seized, too, were
a lockpicking kit, electronic eavesdropping equipment, two .22-calibre
pistols and a leather blackjack.

According to a Government
affidavit, the reports said, top Scientology officials were aware of and
participated in a campaign to silence critics of Scientology.

Among them was the
head of the church's Guardian Office, which was said to be responsible
for conducting covert operations to acquire Government documents and to
discredit and remove from positions of power all persons whom the church
considers to be its enemies.

Scientology , founded
in the late 1940s by L. Ron Hubbard, claims to be a religion in which
people are cleared of troubling experiences in sessions with counsellors.

Fees for the sessions
and courses in the movement's philosophy can cost thousands of collars.

Following last year's
raids, its leaders claimed the church has broken no laws and that it was
a victim of a Government conspiracy to destroy it.

They said Government
documents in its possession were obtained legally under the Freedom of
Information Act.

Some of the documents
were marked FOIA, investigators said. Others were marked non-FOIA.

The reports said
that some of the seized documents indicated that church members staged
a fake hit-and-run accident in Washington in an attempt to compromise
a visiting Florida mayor who had opposed the Scientologists in his community.

They also said the
church had forged an embarrassing news story under the name of a Florida
reporter to discredit him, and had faked a bomb threat to frame the author
of a book critical of Scientology.

Information was gathered
on the personal habits and courtroom conduct of U.S. judges, several of
whom are said to have handled some aspect of cases brought by or against
the church.

The reports said
some of the information was obtained from the judges' private files. Other
information came from interviews in which Scientologists masqueraded as
students or reporters, a tactic that church documents referred to as suitable
guise interviews.

U.S. Government interest
in Scientology files was heightened last year when Michael Meisner, a
high-ranking official in the church, began telling Federal Bureau of Investigation
officials about covert activities being conducted by Scientologists.

Mr. Meisner had been
sought by the FBI in connection with his alleged illegal entry into the
U.S. District Courthouse in Washington.

He since has become
a key Government witness and is being held in protective custody.